Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it